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CVE-2016-2045

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SQL editor in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SQL query that triggers JSON data in a response.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
• phpMyAdmin: 4.5.0, 4.5.0.1, 4.5.0.2, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-9.php
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0a24f92d081033576bfdd9d4bdec1a54501734c1
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/11496890d7e21786cbfd9fd17ab968f498116b3f
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-9.php
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0a24f92d081033576bfdd9d4bdec1a54501734c1
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/11496890d7e21786cbfd9fd17ab968f498116b3f

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